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FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



portion than on grass-feeding and in a much shorter time." 

 While it was once thought that it was not desirable to rear 

 litters of pigs during the winter without the assistance of the 

 dairy, it may be readily "proved that molasses may be used in 

 rearing young pigs with equal advantage as milk, that they 

 will thrive equally well upon it at any season of the year, 

 amply paying for their keeping, and their litters may be reared 

 as well in winter as in summer." The president of the board 

 of agriculture wrote to Ed. T. Waters, Esq., in 1809, asking 

 the following questions in regard to his experiments with 

 molasses in cattle feeding. 



QUESTION. 



(1) What had been the food of the 

 stock previous to the experiments? 



(2) Were they lean, in good order, 

 or advanced in their fattening ? 



(3) Were they confined to stalls or 

 ranging in the field ? 



(4) The progress of the quantity of 

 sugar given, and what other food 

 eaten at the same time? 



(5) Did the sugar agree with the 

 stock ? 



( 6 ) Kespecting the state of their 

 dung? 



(7) Were any trials made on the 

 addition of such substances as would 

 prevent the use of sugar for common 

 domestic purposes? 



(8) How long was the trial con- 

 tinued ? 



(9) A local question of price. 



(10) Was any memorandum made 

 of the water drunk more or less than 

 when on other food? 



ANSWER. 



(1) Grass. 



(2) Good store condition on the 

 first of October, when put to molasses. 



(3) Tied up in stalls the first of 

 October, the time of taking from 

 grass. 



(4) What hay they would eat, say 

 three trusses per ox per week, with 

 one pound and a half of molasses to 

 three gallon buckets of water; half a 

 pound in each bucket per day. 



(5) Perfectly. 



(6) The dung is an object of mate- 

 rial attention, as it is the criterion of 

 their doing well or ill; it should 

 come from them in state of consist- 

 ency, not to soil themselves. 



(7) Certainly not. 



(8) My various experiments are of 

 two years' standing. 



(10) They require less than on 

 other food. 



